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Teledatics’ HaloMax, recently featured on CrowdSupply, is a long-range wireless module designed for applications like smart agriculture, industrial control, and HAM radio.

The Rusting of Linux proceeds apace. Of course there are problems, some technical, some very human. Last week saw one of the leading Rusties sign off from the project, quoting "non-technical" barriers to progress. That'll be people, then.

Your go-to guide for effectively defending SSH servers with SSHGuard against brute-force attacks—find out how!

If you're tired of paying for Microsoft Office features you don't use, here are free alternatives to Word you can download and start using today.

The team behind the popular Backpack Hero, Jaspel, have revealed their new game Moon Watch. Combining together elements of recent popular games like Vampire Survivors for the basic idea, but blending in deck-building too with the ability to stop time.

When development on system info tool Neofetch was discontinued 1 earlier this year a slew of forks, alternatives, and upstart projects sprung up to fill the void. Yet the Neofetch alternative that’s gained the most traction —anecdotally, at least; I’ve not be creeping around Linux conferences to verify first-hand—is Fastfetch.

The work written about earlier this year on New Intel Linux Patches Continue Working To Improve Hybrid CPU Task Placement looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.12 cycle as the patches have now been queued into the power management subsystem's "-next" branch.

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is on many people's minds right now. Some are excited to see what kind of productivity boosts they can get with it, while others are concerned that the way this technology is progressing is very unethical.

Banana Pi BPI-CM5 Pro, also called ArmSoM-CM5, is a Rockchip RK3576 system-on-module electrically and mechanically compatible with the Raspberry Pi CM4 while offering up to 16GB LPDDR5 memory, 128GB eMMC flash, and a 6 TOPS AI accelerator embedded into the RK3576 SoC.

A simple tutorial on how to increase virtual machine size in VirtualBox.

If you frequently listen to music with YouTube, you may prefer a dedicated YouTube music player on your desktop. SpMp is a free and open source YouTube music client. It focuses on customization of colours and song metadata.

Ubuntu 24.04.1 is still available, but for now you can't update to it from Jammy Jellyfish until a bug is sorted. To compensate, there are some fun goodies coming in 24.10.

Following recent international travels, Linus Torvalds is back to his usual late Sunday Linux kernel release regiment. Linux 6.11-rc7 was released a few minutes ago as Linux 6.11 approaches the finish line.

Rescuezilla 2.5.1 open-source disk imaging app fixes critical NTFS bugs and enhances compatibility with Clonezilla.

Learn how to run a Linux command or shell script from a Python script, then get the execution status code or save the output to a Python variable.

The MNT Pocket Reform is now officially available for purchase, following the successful delivery of crowdfunded units via Crowd Supply. This 7? modular mini laptop offers a range of customization options, making it a suitable option for open-source enthusiasts and developers.

This article spotlights alternative tools to fdisk, a utility that lets you manipulate the disk partition table.

Learn how to install and use Docker Rollout to quickly update the Docker Compose services with zero downtime by automating every task.

OpenBMC as the Linux Foundation project backed by vendors like Intel / Microsoft / Google / Meta for an open-source BMC firmware stack continues to be a growing success. This alternative to long-used proprietary BMC software stacks continues to grow in popularity with AMD now using it on their reference motherboards and Supermicro being another notable user with some of their server platforms.

Hyprland 0.43 tiling Wayland compositor has been released, tackling previous bugs and introducing new configurations.